Thread by @sankrant

Check the size of the tech industry in China (including IT), and the number of patents they have in Artificial Intelligence, and then come back and tell me about the "English advantage" in your industry.

https://twitter.com/s_ketharaman/status/1342787177642483713

A little cheat sheet of "English Advantage" of India over China in IT.

@s_ketharaman.
@subhash_kak

https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1147929295685210112?s=20

Only a moronic country has the medium of education in their country to cater to the less than 0.01% that may migrate to a foreign county. China is no moron. Guess who is.

https://twitter.com/raosaveraS/status/1342867004106002432?s=20

The frantic slavery of the English class in India towards English is a sight to behold. It is impervious to all data, much like a religious belief. "Jesus will save us." Just substitute Jesus for English.

https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1147930685501394945?s=20

You think the $200 billion IT-industry is due to "English-medium"? Then Kenya and Nigeria should be IT/tech powers, not Israel, China, Russia, no?

India practically invented math & the binary system. That was the advantage—English is making us dumber.

https://twitter.com/s_ketharaman/status/1342921991750180864?s=20

Here is Prof. Gopinath, of IISc Bangalore, who did his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford. He spoke about the impact of Telugu medium on his development. In fact if you look at most leading scientists of India they did not use English for schooling.

grpr.in/emm

If you think IT is about English, not reasoning, let's setup a hackathon between an English Professor and a Chinese programmer and see who wins.

IT requires logical thinking—it has zilch to do with English. You repeat made-up narratives with no evidence.

https://twitter.com/s_ketharaman/status/1342923982572376065?s=20